EXODUS 13
1 The Lord said to Moses:
2 Consecrate to me all the firstborn; whatever is the first to open
the womb among the Israelites, of human beings and animals, is mine.
3 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you
came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, because the Lord brought you
out from there by strength of hand; no leavened bread shall be eaten.
4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
5 When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your
ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this
observance in this month.
6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day
there shall be a festival to the Lord.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread
shall be seen in your possession, and no leaven shall be seen among you in all
your territory.
8 You shall tell your child on that day, "It is because of what
the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.'
9 It shall serve for you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on
your forehead, so that the teaching of the Lord may be on your lips; for with a
strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.
10 You shall keep this ordinance at its proper time from year to
year.
11"When the Lord has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, as
he swore to you and your ancestors, and has given it to you,
12 you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All
the firstborn of your livestock that are males shall be the Lord's.
13 But every firstborn donkey you shall redeem with a sheep; if you
do not redeem it, you must break its neck. Every firstborn male among your
children you shall redeem.
14 When in the future your child asks you, "What does this
mean?' you shall answer, "By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of
Egypt, from the house of slavery.
15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human firstborn to the firstborn of
animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord every male that first opens the
womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
16 It shall serve as a sign on your hand and as an emblem on your
forehead that by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt."
17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of
the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer; for God thought,
"If the people face war, they may change their minds and return to Egypt."
18 So God led the people by the roundabout way of the wilderness
toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt prepared
for battle.
19 And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph who had required a
solemn oath of the Israelites, saying, "God will surely take notice of
you, and then you must carry my bones with you from here."
20 They set out from Succoth, and camped at Etham, on the edge of the
wilderness.
21 The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead
them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so
that they might travel by day and by night.
22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night
left its place in front of the people.
EXODUS 14
1 Then the Lord said to Moses:
2 Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall camp opposite
it, by the sea.
3 Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, "They are wandering
aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them."
4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, so that I
will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army; and the Egyptians
shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the
minds of Pharaoh and his officials were changed toward the people, and they
said, "What have we done, letting Israel leave our service?"
6So he had his chariot made ready, and took his army with him;
7 he took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of
Egypt with officers over all of them.
8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he
pursued the Israelites, who were going out boldly.
9 The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, his
chariot drivers and his army; they overtook them camped by the sea, by
Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
10As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the
Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the
Lord.
11 They said to Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in
Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done
to us, bringing us out of Egypt?
12 Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, "Let us
alone and let us serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to
serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness."
13 But Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, stand firm,
and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today; for the
Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again.
14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep
still."
15 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry out to me? Tell
the Israelites to go forward.
16 But you lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea
and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground.
17 Then I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will
go in after them; and so I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his
army, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.
18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have
gained glory for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his chariot
drivers."
19 The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and
went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took
its place behind them.
20 It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so
the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not
come near the other all night.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the
sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and
the waters were divided.
22 The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming
a wall for them on their right and on their left.
23 The Egyptians pursued, and went into the sea after them, all of
Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers.
24 At the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and cloud
looked down upon the Egyptian army, and threw the Egyptian army into
panic.
25 He clogged their chariot wheels so that they turned with
difficulty. The Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the Israelites, for the
Lord is fighting for them against Egypt."
26 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the
sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots
and chariot drivers."
27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea
returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed
the Egyptians into the sea.
28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot
drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not
one of them remained.
29 But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the
waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the Egyptians; and Israel
saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
31 Israel saw the great work that the Lord did against the Egyptians.
So the people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord and in his servant
Moses.
EXODUS 15
1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: "I
will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has
thrown into the sea.
2 The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my
salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will
exalt him.
3 The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.
4 "Pharaoh's chariots and his army he cast into the sea; his
picked officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
5The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a
stone.
6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power— your right hand, O
Lord, shattered the enemy.
7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries;
you sent out your fury, it consumed them like stubble.
8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the floods
stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will
divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword,
my hand shall destroy them.'
10 You blew with your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead
in the mighty waters.
11 "Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you,
majestic in holiness, awesome in splendour, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 "In your steadfast love you led the people whom you redeemed;
you guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
14 The peoples heard, they trembled; pangs seized the inhabitants of
Philistia.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; trembling seized the
leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.
16 Terror and dread fell upon them; by the might of your arm, they
became still as a stone until your people, O Lord, passed by, until the people
whom you acquired passed by.
17 You brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your own
possession, the place, O Lord that you made your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord,
that your hands have established.
18 The Lord will reign forever and ever."
19 When the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his chariot
drivers went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon
them; but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
20 Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
21 And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the Lord, for he has
triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea."
22 Then Moses ordered Israel to set out from the Red Sea, and they
went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and
found no water.
23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah
because it was bitter. That is why it was called Marah.
24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, "What shall
we drink?"
25 He cried out to the Lord; and the Lord showed him a piece of wood;
he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for
them a statute and an ordinance and there he put them to the test.
26 He said, "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the
Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his
commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the
diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals
you."
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water
and seventy palm trees; and they camped there by the water.
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